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"Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words."
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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."

"I'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."

"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."

"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."

"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."

"I write to express my love for the humanity."

"Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters."

"It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath."

"Wear red and just be silent, don't even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!"
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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."


"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."


"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."


"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."


"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."


"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."


"Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance or shame or repentance overtakes us."
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